Naval Power and Expeditionary Wars: Peripheral Campaigns and New Theatres of Naval Warfare

by Elleman; Bruce Allen

• ISBN13: 9780415546089
• ISBN10: 0415546087
• eBook ISBN(s): 9781136841682
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2011-01-20
• Publisher: Routledge
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Summary

This volume examines the contribution of naval power to strategic victory by focusing on the decision to open a new theater in an ongoing war, and the contribution of such 'peripheral' expeditions to strategic victory, from the 19th century to Iraq.

Table of Contents

List of contributors	p. ix
Foreword	p. xii
Acknowledgments	p. xiv
Introduction	p. 1
Legal issues in expeditionary campaigns	p. 5
Festering the Spanish ulcer: The Royal Navy and the Peninsular War, 1808-1814	p. 15
The Royal Navy's White Sea campaign of 1854	p. 29
Gallipoli as a combined and joint operation	p. 45
The British Mesopotamia campaign, 1914-1918	p. 58
Pearl Harbor and beyond: Japan's peripheral strategy to defeat China	p. 70
A pivotal campaign in a peripheral theatre: Guadalcanal and World War II in the Pacific	p. 84
The New Guinea campaign during World War II	p. 99
Amphibious assault as decisive maneuver in Korea	p. 113
Naval operations in peripheral conflicts: The Malayan Emergency (1948-1960) and Confrontation (1962-1966)	p. 129
China's 1974 naval expedition to the Paracel Islands	p. 141
ôAlways expect the unexpectedö: The Falklands/Malvinas war of 1982	p. 152
The maritime campaign in Iraq	p. 167
U.S. naval operations and contemporary geopolitics: The War on Terror and the New Great Game in the early-twenty-first century	p. 182
Conclusions: Naval expeditionary warfare and the future of sea power	p. 197
Selected bibliography	p. 213
Index	p. 222
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